Open Innovation

Cross Pollination

Digital Recipe Creation

Combing start-up technologies to build differentiated solutions.

What is Iterate?

ITERATE GETS YOU CLOSER TO INNOVATION

We Validate (and Combine) Digital Inventions from Around the Globe

We uncover curate, curate, and handpick maturing start-ups — from a pool of 1,000′s. Each start-up is chosen based on it’s ability to provide meaningful business impact for large companies. When we see a likely fit between a start-up and a large company, we run validity checks to ensure the start-up is safe for large companies — our Enterprise Members. A final validity check involves real-world experimentation, where we rigorously quantify the business impact of each handpicked start-up. More and more these days, for $20 billion to $180 billion Enterprise Members, we put groups of start-ups through the same experimentation process — to achieve 1+1+1=5 outcomes. For certain Large Enterprise Members, we are combining 4G tracking/heatmapping with web technology that speeds up Mobile response by 40% over current best-of-breed. For others we are combining Software POS with Air Bump with Audio Listening with a cutting edge Internet of Things platform (paint-on antennae) to make shopping and inventory tracking more seamless. After experiments are complete, Iterate provides Perfect Insights for for Large Enterprise Members to make faster and more fact-based adoption decisions. The proof-of-concept planning, experimentation, and analysis we do for Enterprise Lab Members ensures our data is based on real-world test results, not on gut feel. Our Large Enterprise Members come from retail, media, telecom, CPG — even government and travel sectors. In every case, Iterate extends their reach to discovery and vet emerging technologies. Then we double, triple or quadruple their volume of experiments. This should double, triple or quadruple success rates. Iterate’s broad Membership base creates high velocity because we are doing many experiments at a time, across a wide range of emerging technologies. Faster testing and faster learnings are outomes for all participating executives and entrepreneurs. Many times, multiple start-ups can combine together to create a powerful compound.

If your great team has invented a unique emerging technology — something that will truly move the needle for large retailers or media brands — we want to see it. If you’re a Large Enterprise, seeking more innovation velocity, we’d like to talk with you too.

CURATION + EXPERIMENTATION = COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

Ongoing Discovery

Iterate constantly “listens” for new tech, globally. Using a distributed network of discovery nodes:

CURATION + EXPERIMENTATION = COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

Constant Curation

Iterate saves our Retail and Media brand Members precious time. For large companies, we make sense of your sheer volume inbound requests. We cut through the mind-numbing array of options that you are bombarded with daily. Untangling the 1000′s of innovative solutions you could be looking at … methodically presenting the few you should be looking at.

Every start-up claims to deliver a positive business-impact. So each claim is evaluated — on behalf of all Iterate Members. Funding, team, technology, systems, scalability, reference checks, competitive landscapes — it all interests us. Findings are catalogued.

More than 9,000 companies classify themselves as e-commerce start-ups. We sort and classify those start-ups. Making curated recommendations. But also allowing you to access our database on an as-needed basis. Ultimately, we expose the diamonds in the rough — those emerging technologies our Retailers and Media companies should validate or test.

CURATION + EXPERIMENTATION = COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

More Experiments

Iterate expands the testing capacity of large companies. Streamlined process means more experiments. Claims are tested for proof-of-concept. Using real live traffic — from real retail and media participants.

CURATION + EXPERIMENTATION = COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

Sharing and Insights

After an experiment, outcomes — or what we call Perfect Insights — are shared with other Large Enterprise Members. Members become smarter, faster, on what’s working and what isn’t, through the shared learning.

CURATION + EXPERIMENTATION = COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

Faster

Time-to-testing is fast. Iterate removes the need for large companies to do ROIs and MSAs before testing.

Iterate also implements the tests, so IT pipelines are not an issue.

CURATION + EXPERIMENTATION = COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

About Iterate

Iterate Studio discovers and curates disruptive technologies from start-ups around the world for an exclusive Member-group of non-competing retailers and media companies. We conduct rapid proof-of-concept experiments with a sampling of your site visitors to quantify the impact on your business so you can commit resources for RFPs, evaluation, MSAs, implementation and testing on new projects that have a known outcome. That’s how we provide our Iterate Co-op members an affordable, low-risk pipeline of innovative competitive advantages.

The Smartest and most innovating brands in the world partner with Iterate

Our First Entrepreneurs are Seasoned

The founders of Iterate’s emerging technologies are an interesting bunch. They are focused on revolutionary improvements to visual search, rich media and website download speeds, dynamic pricing and couponing, social listening, shopper interaction within video containers … and much more. Here are stats on the first entrepreneurs we’ve endorsed: